Imagine that Alice is piloting a space ship light years away from Earth. Bob steers his space ship in the opposite direction, also light years away. Back on Earth, scientists prepare in a lab two particles from a single reaction, such as the decay of a pion. These particles are…

I haven’t always loved mathematics. I distinctly recall being pretty miserable in all my high school math classes and the rote learning they entailed. I started to feel a call to do it professionally when I took a required course called Discrete Mathematics. This course had no textbook and consisted…

The question: why are we all here? used to be the purview of religion. The Bible claims that God created the universe and human beings by His Word. The universe was literally spoken into existence. Many creation stories, such as the one in the Book of Genesis, propose the universe…

Why proponents of population reduction engage in a logical fallacy — From ancient times until the Renaissance, philosophers were primarily concerned with the nature of the universe. Like children, they were interested in how to understand what things are made of, how to live properly, and how to learn things. Beginning with Descartes and becoming ever more extreme with 20th century…

Modern scientism denies the existence of a soul because it fails to understand what is meant by the human soul from a philosophical perspective. Because religion adopts the concept of the soul for its own purposes, it is considered to exist within the realm of belief in the supernatural. …

In the 13th century, physics was in its infancy. People still believed the Sun went around the Earth. The state-of-the-art theories of the day in Western Europe were 16 centuries old. The medieval period was also the naissance of arguments for God’s existence. These arguments were independent of any religious…

The latest in the quest to understand the world’s most confusing relic — The Shroud of Turin has for many decades been thought to have been a clever forgery, created in the middle ages. The historical record of the Shroud begins in 1350. The Shroud is claimed to be the burial shroud that wrapped the crucified Christ when he was placed in the…

With so much smoke in the air from wildfires these days, you might ask how the human lungs fair from such exposure. The answer is: not good but probably better than other mammals. There is a popular fire pit that advertises on social media. …

The vastness of the universe makes it difficult to understand just how small and isolated we are. The observable universe is approximately 93 billion light years across right now. That is only the part we can see. Think of the Earth as being a tiny island within a vast ocean…